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Thursday, September 29, 2016

Wagle to Release Hit List; Puts Contract on Taxpayers

Sen. Susan Wagle is planning to release a ‘Contract with
Kansas.’ She should call it a the ‘Contract ON Kansas,’ because I have a
feeling it’s going to read a lot like a hit list. It’s a contract out on Kansas
taxpayers, and her mafia-like hitmen intend to use the list as a weapon.

Wagle will announce this contract on Kansans during a press
conference next week, requiring Republican Senate candidates to sign on if they
want access to the Senate Leadership PAC money between now and the November
election.

I’m told the contract will include lovely features such as
rolling back every Gov. Brownback policy. From expanding Medicaid to rolling
back the LLC and reinstating the pass-through exemptions, Wagle intends to tax
Kansans to the breaking point.

Wagle, it appears, is trying to out-Democrat the Democrats.
This is short-sighted political positioning, and I don’t get it. Clearly Wagle
has higher political aspirations, but she’s not going to have a base if she
continues down this path of PAC hostage taking, weaponizing her agenda, and
stabbing everyone she meets right in the back repeatedly. This is how mob
bosses in the old days ended up sleeping with the fishes.

Wagle alienated the so-called moderates and Democrats by
signing on to Brownback’s plan early. After all, Brownback’s efforts to oust
former Senate President Steve Morris and his ilk like Tim Owens are precisely the
reason Wagle earned the role of Senate President. As an early adopter
of the Brownback policies, Wagle not only advocated for many of them, she was a
consistent vote for many of his policies. Democrats and so-called moderates
aren’t likely to forget her once-conservative ways, though they may do it long
enough so they can hang her with the disastrous policies sure to come from the
2017 Kansas Legislature.

Meanwhile, good luck finding a conservative who will work
with her. Conservatives recognize that she isn’t just a back
stabber, she’s a hypocrite,
too.

So I ask, in two years or four years, when Wagle decides to
make a run for Governor or challenge for Congressman Mike Pompeo’s seat, who
will be her base?

Shortly after Brownback’s election, it appeared Wagle’s
political star was on the rise. But now, she is about to be a woman wearing
cement shoes standing alone
attempting to rally people who will refuse to follow her. Each of those people
will also be unwilling to turn their backs on her, as it appears she carries
some pretty sharp knives and isn’t afraid to bury one in the back of just about
anyone.